Just got the results back from my Duolingo English Cert - 9.2 out of 10 - AMA

Screenshot of the CertContext on myself: I'm a german 17 y-old living in Spain, only taking english lessons in school.

I'll just write up what the test consisted of:

First, you have to enter your Name and Birth date and have some Identification card near you, I used my passport.

Duolingo then asks you if your room is lit and quiet tells you to not wear headphones. You also have to install their Chrome extension and let them record your screen. This stuff was pretty nicely done and was straight-forward.

The last step before taking the exam is taking a photo of both of the sides of your ID with the webcam, which proved to be kinda difficult for me as my Laptop's webcam didn't autofocus the text, but it worked out after ~30 sec.

Then the test begins! There are 4 kinds of activities, two of which you already should be familiar with if you've used Duolingo before: the listening one and the speaking one. The listening activities proved to be kinda difficult because Duolingo would auto-play the track and you can only re-listen to it twice after that.

The "select real english words" ones were fairly easy and the Sentence Completion ones were VERY difficult in my opinion as sometimes there were two words to complete beneath.

I completed the test yesterday at ~22:55 European time and got the results back today (a Saturday) at 16:10 which is of course awesome. I expected having to wait way longer.

That's a very impressive score! When I saw the title I assumed you were a native English speaker and was going to gently tease you for not getting a perfect 10.

I've done the test and my impression was that the 'select real english words' would be the one that would stand in the way of most non-natives from getting a perfect score as they throw in some words that look quite convincingly English, but aren't. However you thought that it was fairly easy.